Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor in Internet of Things Thrust, HKUST(GZ)

About University

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Guangzhou (GZ) campus was established in 2022. The new campus is pioneering a thematic and cross-disciplinary academic structure, complementing our Clear Water Bay campus in Hong Kong. Our reputation is world leading, with HKUST ranking 40th in the world in 2023 (QS rankings). We encourage staff to engage alongside and be affiliated with both campuses. For more information about HKUST(GZ), you may visit the university website (hkust-gz.edu.cn).

About IoT Thrust

The Internet of Things (IoT) Thrust is an academic department in HKUST (GZ). We specialise in research and teaching related to all aspects of IoT and digital societies, e.g., communications, machine learning, cybersecurity, human computer interaction, sensors. 

We seek to appoint multiple exceptional tenure-track or tenured faculty, at any rank (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor). These appointments will be research intensive, with significant financial support for hiring students and research staff. Internationalisation is at our core, and we therefore also offer substantial funds to support international travel and outreach. 

The IoT Thrust is currently composed of 21 full time faculty, who regularly publish in major top-tier journals and conferences, such as SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS, INFOCOM, NSDI, WWW, CHI, JSAC, CCS, USENIX Security, IEEE Transactions in Wireless Communications, IEEE/ACM Transactions in Networking etc. 

You can find the list of our existing faculty at https://iott.hkust-gz.edu.cn/people/p_faculty/.

Expected Qualifications & Requirements

Candidates should hold a Ph.D. degree and work in one or more areas related to the IoT Thrust. We are particularly keen to hire faculty with expertise in:

• Sensors; embedded systems; IoT devices
• Artificial intelligence; data science; machine learning; optimization
• Security and privacy-enhancing technologies
• Metaverse technologies; human-computer interaction
• Distributed computing and systems; wireless communications; computer networking
• IoT applications 

Candidates should demonstrate outstanding research potential, and should be able to contribute to our growing multi-disciplinary curriculum. 

• Applicants for tenure-track Assistant Professor should demonstrate strong research and teaching potentials. 
• Applicants for Associate Professor should have a proven record in research, teaching, student supervision, and funding. 
• Applicants for Professor should have world-class academic achievements, international academic leadership, and an established track record in teaching, student supervision and funding. 

Note, English is the medium of instruction and administration and therefore candidates should have excellent oral and written English language skills.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Highly competitive salary, comparable to US and Hong Kong institutions
• Generous start-up funds, which can be used for hiring staff, students, and covering equipment/travel costs (worth hundreds of thousands of GBP per faculty)
• Attractive academic tax rebate opportunities
• Reduced teaching load in the first year
• Additional (financial) talent bonus opportunities, enabling substantial salary uplifts
• Numerous internal and external funding opportunities 
• Heavily subsidised on-campus housing available
• Interdisciplinary and international community
• Convenient location (50 mins by train to Hong Kong; 20 mins by train to Shenzhen)

Terms of Contract

The appointment to Professor or some Associate Professor will be made on substantive (tenured) basis. The appointments to tenure-track Assistant Professor and Associate Professor without tenure will be made on an initial fixed-term contract of three years with the option for renewal.

How to apply:

Please submit the application via the HKUST (GZ) Recruitment System (https://facrecruit.hkust.edu.hk). You should first sign up to create your personal account. Review of applications will continue until the positions are filled. 

For questions regarding the recruitment system or general inquiry, please reach us at facultyhire@hkust-gz.edu.cn. For Thrust specific questions, please address to the Thrust Head at eetsang@ust.hk or the Thrust email at iott@hkust-gz.edu.cn with subject title of “Faculty Application to IoT”.